Tbilisi says next round of Geneva consultations won't be easy
TBILISI. June 16 (Interfax) - The June 18 round of the Geneva consultations on security and stability in the South Caucasus will be more difficult than the previous meeting, Georgian First Deputy Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said.
"This round of the negotiations will be comparatively more difficult," he told reporters before the Georgian delegation departed for Switzerland.
"It is possible that representatives of Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali district [South Ossetia] my use the resolution passed by the UN in Georgian support several weeks ago to disrupt the negotiations. Nevertheless, we will raise every question of interest and importance for us," Zalkaliani said.
The situation "on the occupied lands" is likely to be discussed at the negotiations, he continued.
In turn, First Deputy State Minister for Reintegration Ketevan Tsikhelashvili said Georgia would ask about the deprivation of ethnic Georgian residents of Abkhazia's Ochamchira and Gali districts of Georgian passports, which limited their civil rights.
